From Harpers, 1932.  The article in question is charming and very funny.

Confession -- we, too, use "thee's" and "thou's" to deaden the buzz of living conversation.  From Lighted Pathway, 1981.

From St. Nicholas magazine, 1916.

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

Wintertime in Florida: the "reason for the season" rearranges into "seashore afternoons" (with a seahorse).

From St. Nicholas, 1913.  See One-Letter Words: A Dictionary.

"Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance."  From Hoenshel's Complete English Grammar, 1897.

We've found only a single other example of a "dithyrambic dither" in print.  From Harpers, 1932.

"We reach the goal when, in the mansions of the blest, Death leaves to its eternal rest the weary soul."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.

This book's title is technically four digitate exclamation points and one pollical question mark, with an asterisk offering the subtitle like a footnote (cute to have a hand and a foot).  After the Turn On, What?

It's a good though rarely-enough heard exclamation: "'Time of Abraham!' I exclaimed."  From The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander by Frank R. Stockton and illustrated by Reginald B. Birch, 1899.

"Exploring the treasure of unknown words in the adult dictionary."  May your own adult vocabulary be unabridged.  From Together, 1964.

The Big U says, quoting TobyMac's "It's You":

"(Aye, aye, aye, aye) It's you, it's you."

The Big U is from Wid's Daily, 1919.

"By jings!"  There are only 99 Google results for this Scottish exclamation.  Note that it's doubled in this passage, as are two other phrases that follow.  But of course there's an echo -- just look at the size of that room!  From T. Tembarom by Frances Hodgson Burnett and illustrated by Charles S. Chapman, 1913.

For the identity of the Jingo awakened by the expression "by jings," see Magic Words: A Dictionary.

These innocent-seeming quizzes invariably have a tricky twist, like how the six W's (who, what, where, when, why, and how) actually include an H.  Days That End in Y by Vikki VanSickle.

"Often in a wooden house a golden room you find."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.

"I will call it Comsognathus Obtusidens Blinksis."

Ghost of the Victim: "Well!  That's rough on me."

From Life, 1900

By the time he signs his message, Colonel Jambuel Q. Stoopalaya is transformed into Col. Lemuel Q. Stoopnagle.  We also appreciate the references to Mr. F. R. Q. J. H. Feltoph Randus and to the dose of bromo-seltzer named Herman.  From Tulane's 1933 yearbook.

We thought this mild oath, "Judas' cats," was one we'd somehow missed along the way, but a search indicates that it's extraordinarily rare.  From the University of Western Ontario's 1930 yearbook.

The long-held gambits and counters are finally revealed, so that anyone can one-up the greatest scoundrels of all: magicians.  It's all in Upmanship Tricks: Secrets of One-Upping Magicians.